Arleen Sorkin

Arleen Sorkin voices Harley Quinn on Batman: The Animated Series, the art-deco Gotham of Conroy’s growl and Hamill’s Joker — kids’ TV that adults claimed without irony. Timm and Radomski built black-sky noir, jazz menace, villains as tragic theater. Harley walks out of this show into the wider DC canon. Sorkin is why a henchwoman became a weather system. Still the gold-standard cartoon night. Batman: The Animated Series ran 1992–1995 on Fox Kids — 1990s weather Harley Quinn had to live inside, not a caption under a still. The credits are just the door; the week is the job.

TV Flash starts her at s01e01. The Cat and the Claw: art-deco Gotham, Conroy's growl already the adult claim on a Fox Kids timeslot. The Fox Kids run is the slot; Harley Quinn is the pulse inside it.

For the hour that still shows the bruise, file s01e03. Heart of Ice: villain as tragic theater — the hour that proved kids' TV could freeze without going cute. s01e07 closes the listed map as Joker's Favor: Hamill's clown as jazz menace, the partnership that still defines Western superhero animation. Her job is the same in different lighting — Harley Quinn as weather, not a stunt.

The laugh is the trap; the tragedy is the craft. On TV Flash she is 1990s animation royalty — the voice who photographed as a bit and played as the reason Gotham still feels populated by people, not logos. Arleen photographs as one job and plays as another. That gap is the craft. Batman: The Animated Series still needs it.